So I've put the daunting prospect of filling my own world on hold. I'm not sure I'll actually finish Leaside though I want to. I'd really like to work on my Rorag world but that's also for later. For now I'm going to concentrate on building community lots. I don't have a lot of experience doing it and I think if I work on adding my own lots and activities to a world it may make building my own from scratch easier.

I've done lots of community lots so far but few are fully finished. Right now I'm working on replacing the pool lot in Isla Paradiso. I find the world heavily lacking in actual bars and clubs. Resorts are cool but I'd like to have a bit more of a realistic touch. Even vacations spots with lots of resorts have restaurants and clubs and bars too!

Here's the start of my pool lot. It's a rooftop pool! 

The idea behind it is sort of a cheesy touristy megaplex of a building all neon lights and bubble machines that all the hipsters poo-poo as lame and uncool. however it's that type of place that everyone's been to and visits anyway either out of serious interest or out of irony to make fun of the "douche-y crowd" lol. this is my vision of it anyway.

Leaside: I've put Devonhall/Rorag aside until I buy University Life. The whole idea around that world was a magical world with a Hogwarts-y school so I sort of held off to see what they'd do with uni. So! Leaside is a New England coastal inspired town I'm doing on a medium map. Want to keep it small to see if I can actually finish one lol. We'll see how it goes!

 

Map Size: Large 300
Terrain Type: Coastal, University Life Distant Terrain
Residential Lots: 30 - 1/30
Community Lost: 17 - 5/17
Rabbit Holes: 14 - 1/14

Neighborhoods:

• Glencastle - Rich Hills
• Strathmoore - Main Residential
• Priory Square - Downtown - neighborhood started
• Bell Harbor - Beach Town - neighborhood started
• Corktown/Raleigh - Port, industry, university

Obviously the lot stuff is subject to change once I start plotting. All I want to do is dive in but I should have been in bed for work over three hours ago! That's what happens when your graphics card goes kaput and you're out of commission for 4 months. JUST got Darth freddie back from the broken computer hospital on Saturday and I spent the rest of the weekend messing about with sim-y things. Anyway I'm sort of house sitting at my mom's so I'm hopping back and forth between sim stuff at my place and well... house sitting. Lame. Must... go... to... bed. sigh.

I've got a starter house to upload but I think I'll wait until I have some of the world started and maybe one more house before posting. Though it is up on my tumblr and in my new thread at TSD. Yay new shit!

<3tash.

sorry that it's also in my header XD. i hate that. so little time to squeeze in any sims time so any one dinky pic i can show is plastered everywhere.

one thing i'll say is i finally understand what a bitch CAW is. once you really start digging in it's hella frustrating. i've done this canal/bridge area three times now. i was going for a fourth because things will NOT LINE UP and i'm afraid cabs are going to go leaping over the channel instead of smoothly along the bridge. i'm totally going to test in game with a vehicle next time i dive in.

anyway! i just threw up a bunch of stuff along it so i could make a neat lil' blog header. that's not exactly how this area is going to look. i plan on quite a few custom buildings to fit what i want for this area. which is a sort of kitchy but yuppy indoor/outdoor market. bookstores, antiques, salon/spa, lounge etc. there will be a subway stop on either side of the bridge for convenience. on the side with the buildings and beyond will be the downtown core, the "port town" (industiral, transport, lofts, dive bars etc), and the student ghetto/university. on the side we can't see will be the hillside wealthy manors (in the actual mountains with country club and i'm really wanting to fit some sort of tomb in somewhere), and the seaside village.

yeah. so it's 2:30am and i'm completely babbling out of my face and should have been in bed two and a half hours ago. everything's taking me longer because of it so i gotta split. my plan is for my next post to actually include a map and some proper explanation rather than this sleepy wall of text jibberish.

'till next time!

<3sococo

so this was probably as far as i ever got in CAW. but, i'm so super smart i decided to upgrade last night. as we all know patching requires you to reinstall CAW. did i save devonhall before doing so? why would i do that? i always just dive in and start doing things without thinking. 

now i gotta do this all over. that bridge and canal wall were a total biatch. not a happy person right now lol

but! new world bloggie! all my world crap will go here now. (^_^)-b

<3 tash